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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:51:51 +1300, Craig Sutton wrote:
> I'm having trouble cut'n pasting items off some news sites
>
> When pasted often things like Quotations marks and apostrophe's come out
> replaced with question marks.I'm mostly pasting from IE but I have the same
> problem with Firefox.
>
> "We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
> to the people affected in India," he was quoted.
>
> will come out as this
>
> ?We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
> to the people affected in India,? he was quoted.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
It's a character set thing. The original text contained weird characters
that aren't a straight ' or &quot; but look like them. I see it a lot from
Mac users.

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Craig Sutton wrote:
> I'm having trouble cut'n pasting items off some news sites
>
> When pasted often things like Quotations marks and apostrophe's come out
> replaced with question marks.I'm mostly pasting from IE but I have the same
> problem with Firefox.
>
> "We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
> to the people affected in India," he was quoted.
>
> will come out as this
>
> ?We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
> to the people affected in India,? he was quoted.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

What are you pasting into?

Try notepad, but before you paste go file save as and change the encoding to
unicode and see if you have better luck pasting. Also change the font in
whatever you are pasting to for one with a full character set like arial. Also
check the characters you need are in the font you are pasting into.

Craig Sutton wrote:
> I'm having trouble cut'n pasting items off some news sites
>
> When pasted often things like Quotations marks and apostrophe's come out
> replaced with question marks.I'm mostly pasting from IE but I have the
> same problem with Firefox.
>
> "We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the
> rest to the people affected in India," he was quoted.
>
> will come out as this
>
> ?We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
> cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the
> rest to the people affected in India,? he was quoted.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

"Richard" <> wrote in message
news:43cc1ef8$...
> Craig Sutton wrote:
> > I'm having trouble cut'n pasting items off some news sites
> >
> > When pasted often things like Quotations marks and apostrophe's come out
> > replaced with question marks.I'm mostly pasting from IE but I have the
same
> > problem with Firefox.
> >
> > "We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75
per
> > cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the
rest
> > to the people affected in India," he was quoted.
> >
> > will come out as this
> >
> > ?We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75
per
> > cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the
rest
> > to the people affected in India,? he was quoted.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> What are you pasting into?
>
> Try notepad, but before you paste go file save as and change the encoding
to
> unicode and see if you have better luck pasting. Also change the font in
> whatever you are pasting to for one with a full character set like arial.
Also
> check the characters you need are in the font you are pasting into.

Does it in notepad as well. Also Notepad in win 98 hasn't got the option you
refer to.

Its Really annoying anyway, as I Cutnpaste quite a bit of news content for
my website.

Craig Sutton wrote:
>
> Does it in notepad as well. Also Notepad in win 98 hasn't got the option you
> refer to.
>
> Its Really annoying anyway, as I Cutnpaste quite a bit of news content for
> my website.

Well that will be the problem, win98 doesnt handle unicode at the OS level, its
up to the applications to convert it, and most things dont bother.

"Richard" <> wrote in message
news:43cdc3d1$...
> Craig Sutton wrote:
>
> >
> > Does it in notepad as well. Also Notepad in win 98 hasn't got the option
you
> > refer to.
> >
> > Its Really annoying anyway, as I Cutnpaste quite a bit of news content
for
> > my website.
>
> Well that will be the problem, win98 doesnt handle unicode at the OS
level, its
> up to the applications to convert it, and most things dont bother.

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